01 Procurement
Tender overview
- Buyer
- Somerset Council
- Status
- Complete
- Procurement method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Category
- services
- CPV classification
- 92511000 — Library services
- Tender period
- Not supplied — Not supplied
Description
Somerset Council is the lead authority for the Libraries West Consortium which also comprises Bath & North East Somerset Council, BCP (Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole) Council, Bristol City Council, Dorset Council, North Somerset Council and South Gloucestershire Council. Somerset Council is also working in partnership with Gloucestershire County Council (to procure E Books & E Audio Books) and Plymouth City Council (to procure E Magazines and E Newspapers). An options paper which was circulated across the consortium, the decision was taken to go out to tender under ESPO Framework Agreement 376E_24 Digital Library Content and Print Books.
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02 Awards and contracts
Published award records
Libraries Digital Content
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Award value
- Not supplied
- Suppliers
- 1
- Signed contract
- 14 August 2025
03 Organisations
Buyers, suppliers and other parties
Somerset Council
County Hall, The Crescent, Taunton, UKK23, TA14DY, United Kingdom
Bolinda UK LTD
London, UKI, WC1N 2EB, United Kingdom
Companies House 05086231 →Public Procurement Organisation Number: PPGC-1434-MQPJ
London, United Kingdom
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04 Provenance
Source for this process
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